Are komodo dragons venomous?

They’re often depicted as huge, scaly beasts, but new discoveries are changing our beliefs about the creatures that once stalked our planet

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Far from the shore, out in the vast expanses of the open seas lives a group of unusual animals, collectively known as ‘neuston’. Their home is the giant, two-dimensional skin of the sea, which forms a

Summer 1975 was a glorious time to be young on the Massachusetts island of Martha’s Vineyard. “We had the beaches to ourselves – nobody else wanted to go in the water, not even a lot of people who’d l

DANGEROUS ANIMALS

I t’s the summer solstice, and the mountains ...